Chapter VI
SERENA
The girls and I were sitting out having a picnic one day after school. Lita had provided all the food since she was the best cook. I was taking small bites of food when Rei who had a unique way of sensing thing dropped her cup of tea and looked to the sky.
Mina whipped her head to the side to look at Rei. Mina's blonde hair flowed in the wind…and into my face. I heard her say to Rei, "What's the matter Rei?"
Ami said, "Look!"
"What? I can't see! Mina's hair is in the way!" I shouted Mina's hair fell away as I struggled to get it out of my mouth. When I could see I said, "What are you guys looking at?"
Lita blinked her brandy brown eyes and shouted, "It's gonna crash!"
The girls jumped to there feet.
"What? What?!" I asked turning to look around frantically.
"Look up in the sky you dork!" Rei said.
I finally noticed their heads were all tilted up towards the sky. I looked also and then jumped up too, "It's gonna Crash!!"
"No kidding you ditz!" Rei insulted again.
Up in the sky was a smoke trailing ball, it was screaming towards the earth at great speed. It sunk below the horizon and then a gigantic explosion erupted and a wave of wind blew all of our hair around and the trees even. All of us were screaming as the sky filled with smoke and a rush of wind current almost knocked us off our feet. The wind died down as quickly as it had started.
"We'd better go check this out girls. I don't like the feeling of this." Ami said.
"Right!" I replied taking out my transformation stick, "Let's do it!"
We raised the sticks in to the air and it's magic individually surrounded us. We soon transformed into our super selves, the Sailor scouts!
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We arrived at the scene of the crash site and peered deep into a crater in the ground. Fire was burning inside the crater and the trees to the side were also engulfed in flames. Mercury with her mind on saving the landscape used her powers over ice to put out the flames. White smoke filled the area and turned gray when it mixed with the black smoke from the fires that had been burning.
As the smoke slowly pealed away, we were able to see it.
"I see it!" Mina, now Sailor Venus called out.
"I wonder what it is?" Lita (Sailor Jupiter) said.
"Get back…" Sailor Mars (Rei) warned. She stared down at the ball in the middle of the crater and took a cautious step back.
"Well we have to make sure who ever is in that thing is okay." I said.
"It's not of this world. And I don't think it has come in peace." Rei stepped back again.
That got me to step back a bit. The…ship (?) was circular and didn't look like anything I'd ever seen so it had to be from out of this world.
"HEY! Hey guys! Sorry I'm late!" It was Rini transformed in to her Chibi Moon uniform, "Wow! What is that!?" Is it an alien ship?" Rini was the youngest of us scouts and also the most spunky, curious and disobedient. "Let's go see!" She jumped down onto the steep drop of the crater. She slid down the slope as if she were on a skateboard.
"Rini!" I scolded, "Get back here!"
"Your not my mommy! You can't tell me what to do! Besides, I just wanna look!" Rini snapped back.
That's what she thought. She had no idea.
Rini crept closer to the door of the ship. Its front windshield was cracked from impact. She raised her hand to touch the ship and the door responded with a jerk and a whine. Rini jumped back. The door was opening.
"AAAGHH!" Rini shrieked and scrambled up the crater. I helped her up and over the edge.
"See, you should've listened to me you little brat!" I scolded.
"Shaddup meat ball head I told you I just wanted to…"
"You guys! Look!" Jupiter exclaimed.
A humanoid figure poked his head out and looked up. We all backed away from the crater so as not to be meet by his eyes. Somehow the humanoid figure flew up into thin air and hovered slowly down to the ground, it's back was turned to us. It was a guy, with the weirdest style of hair and the strangest clothing. He looked human at least, but then the guy scratched his head with a brown bushy object.
"He's got a tail!" Rini pointed out.
…I wasn't scared…Really! It's just…when you see this horrible hulking monster with fangs and claws and a cobra snake for a tail, scratching it's head with the teeth of the snake, then turning around with the most evil smile you've ever seen… uh you tend to get a little nervous and want to react some way ;)…o_0
MIYUGEN
The blonde meatball head female totally over reacted. You see I have this thing I do when I'm nervous. I scratch my head with my tail; it's nothing, just a nervous reaction right? Well, I was standing there simply minding my own business trying to figure out what had just happened and how the hell I was supposed to find a ride out of this place, and I see these little school girls standing there trying to look tough with Power Levels no higher than… maybe 15,000. And then, this blonde headed girl who stood out to me for about a nanosecond as the leader…let out the most high-pitched sound I'd ever heard.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT"S AN ALIEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She jumped into the air with her legs and arms flailing at about 500 miles per hour. I covered my ears and realized all of a sudden that these girls were now rushing in on me!
"W-WAIT! I'm not an enemy! I'm not a…errgh!" It was hopeless for me to try and argue with this "Leader" I guess she had put every single girl in to a panic, and now they targeted me as an enemy.
At the same time it was hopeless for these girls to think that with their power levels they'd even come
close to taking me on, but fine, they wanted to fight I'd give them exactly what they wanted.
LITA
He tried to say something, probably a threat and if it was this guy was going down. He was probably some Negaverse loser. He dressed dumb enough. And no alien garbage was going to try and take over our crystal Tokyo! I clenched a fist as we came in closer and as one we let him have it. I threw punches at him as fast as I could. But… every single attack met some type of resistance. His arms were a blur and no one, whether punching or kicking seemed to land a single blow.
He was being driven back to the edge of the crater and then…
He jumped into the air pulling a back flip and landed on the other side.
"Let me try and explain!" The guy called to us.
"We know exactly what you want Nega trash!" I shouted to him raising a fist. I was pretty fired up, "You want to destroy crystal Tokyo!! Well I Sailor Jupiter won't let you do that!!" I summoned my electric energy for my special attack, "Jupiter Thunder SMASH!!!" I let go of the energy in what looked like a blue energy disc with lightning surrounding it.
Debris erupted as my attack-hit home.
At least, I thought it had done something, but when all the smoke cleared away the alien guy was standing there with his hand outward in what looked like he'd done a flicking motion with his middle finger and thumb to stop my attack. He didn't look the least bit bothered by the attack physically. If any thing he looked very annoyed.
"Uh…how?" I wondered and stepped back.
"Don't worry Jupiter, I got him!" Venus attacked with her "love chain encirclement" a beam/whip like attack emerged from Venus's hands and stretched out at the alien guy.
He smacked it away.
Mars used her "Celestial Fire" which with a forearm was deflected, Mercury used her bubbles and they were dodged and froze things behind him. Chibi Moon used her mini moon tiara and the being caught it.
"Hey!" Serena transformed in to Sailor Moon now shouted, "You can't do that, try this on for size Creep!" After "warming" up her "Moon Tiara" she flung that at him.
The guy flung Chibi Moon's tiara into Serena's with pinpoint accuracy and the collision caused a bright flash as the energy spread away.
Nothing had worked.
"Who is this guy?" I groaned * what did we have left? Every single attack was fended off with extreme ease almost like shrugging your shoulder. How could he have that much power? *
"Okay then… All together girls!" Serena began forming her "Moon Tiara" energy. I called upon my lighting power and as one we gave it our all in an attempt to rid ourselves of this Nega idiot. It was like a multi colored volcanic eruption when our powers hit. Billowing smoke flooded the sky. Before the smoke even began to clear he was breathing down my neck,
"My turn."
We all heard his voice from behind but before any of us had the chance to turn around, he dropped down to sweep kick Venus and I in one fluid motion.
I fell hard on my hip and Venus landed on her butt and banged her head. I looked up.
How was he that fast? The smoke of our last attack still hadn't disappeared and this guy managed to make his way over or around the crater and behind us with out anyone detecting him.
The alien guy bounded up and Sailor Moon and Mercury were rushing in on him. Before he had landed he stretched his arms out to his side his palms facing where Serena and Ami we rushing from opposite sides. Instead of blasting a deadly energy ball of some sort, a tremendously strong gust of wind pulsated from him taking Ami and Serena off their feet and on their backs. Chibi Moon ran at him at full speed ready for a hard hitting groin strike and the guy simply put his hand to Rini's forehead, pushed with minimal effort and had Rini flying through the air like a rag doll.
Mars was waiting for him, right behind with a good straight punch.
She threw it and I knew it would connect, but the alien guy was much faster than I had given him credit for. Hardly turning his torso, he caught Rei's fist in his palm and squeezed down on her hand to trap it. His eyes burned fiercely into hers.
This didn't look good.
REI
I'd thought for sure I would have nailed the guy in the back of his head as close as I was to him. But when I struck out he caught my fist in his hand and turned to look at me. His eye glared at me.
* now I'm dead * I closed my eyes and waited for impact from his counter attack.
Nothing.
His grip on my hand slackened, so loosely it didn't even feel as if his hand were there. I reopened my eyes and looked at him wondering why he'd not attacked me.
He stood frozen like a statue; his eyes wide open and mouth agape. He twitched a bit and had this far off look as if remembering something deep in his mind.
* Oooookaaaaay. * I thought. Still the guy remained in his totally weird state of stillness. * Okay that's enough! I'm going to knock his block off! * With my other hand, I balled a fist and came in from the side hard, no guy was going to check out my body like that and think that he could just get away with it.
Once again, the guy was too fast, he snapped out of his daze and dodged just in time to evade my swing. He let go of my other hand and as he did so my own swinging momentum turned me a full one-eighty tripping up on my high heels flailing and falling back… into the guys arms.
He caught me before I'd hit the pavement and once again he looked deeply almost with concern into my eyes. He turned his eyes away from me and gently laid me down to the ground. Drawing himself to full height, he clenched his fist. Like a candle wick his hands formed fire glowing and encircling his fist.
"Now, I wouldn't try anything funny." He began, "Let me try to expla…" A police siren shrieked and a fire truck, ambulance and police cars and News show vans pealed around the corner. I turned my head to see what the alien guy would do but… he was already gone.
"….?" I stood up with the other Sailor Scouts.
"What happened here?" A police officer asked as he made his way up.
"Look a Spaceship!" A female reporter pointed out. The police barricade that had been set up were totally ignored and run over by a bunch of over enthusiastic news reporters and cameramen.
My mind returned to the strange guy who we scouts had just fought. Ever single one of us had taken our try at knocking him out, but for some reason, it seemed, he had treated me specially. Something felt right, but something felt wrong about the aliens' presence here. Was he from the Negaverse? If he was why didn't he just finish us off now and take all of our energy including the innocents surrounding us? My mind was thoroughly intrigued and frankly this chance meeting only left me wanting to know more. I honestly couldn't wait until we meet again.
I looked to the sky and allowed the night breeze to caress my face. I stared up at the full moon; my mind wandering thru a thousand different possibilities, this strange man had struck something inside of me. Anger, wonder, I could not thoroughly explain it. All I knew was that next time I saw him it would be different. I would not allow him to look at me like that again!! The nerve of him, I mean someone I had just met. Yet, somehow I wasn't as mad as I wanted to be.
MIYUGEN
* Who was this woman! She was so beautiful, so amazingly familiar! * From a nearby skyscraper I looked down towards a scene of flashing camera light and vehicle lights. But that's not what caught my attention. I homed in on her from the peak of the building. My heart jumped as my very eyes confirmed it. The girl with the red skirt, she had the same hair, the same eyes, the same build, the same… everything! I couldn't believe it. A feeling I couldn't even begin to explain washed over all over my body.
RAYANNA! She looked exactly like Rayanna!
* could it be? *
I saw her lift her head up to look to the sky. Those lovely purple eyes looked as if they were staring right at me. I looked deep into those eyes. She never took notice as I admired her from afar. My heart felt as if it were going the speed of light, I'd found her alive…Rayanna…she was…
"Wait, get grip on your self!" I told myself aloud. I tore my gaze away from her and looked down to my feet. I closed my eyes and backed away from the edge of the building from which I had been peering.
"Rayanna, I saw it happen myself. Nothing was left of her. She is dead."
But then who was this? The girl with the red skirt I had to meet her! She looked exactly no doubt about it like an older more mature Rayanna. As if Rayanna had aged with me and now existed here on earth. My stomach knotted. But then the way I had totally froze in front of her and just stared at her like some psychopath, she must have thought I was some freak and would never want to see me again, much less talk to me.
I lowered my head shaking it from side to side trying to clear my thoughts.
"I can't just let this go. She looked exactly like Rayanna! What am I supposed to do? My heart…it goes out to this girl." I dropped down to a fudoza sitting position. I put my chin to my fist to think. It was like a gift from the heavens, a second chance at happiness that could only have been provided by Rayanna. But this wasn't Rayanna. Rayanna was gone. So why did I feel this way? In my heart there was this place I'd never thought would be opened up again. I had to stay here on earth.
My conscious fought my intentions.
* no. I don't need this! I fought inside my mind. I'm a galactic challenger. A warrior. Why would I need to spend my time here on earth? This feeling is only holding my down, making me weak! *
*tomorrow. *
Tomorrow I would come to a decision. Whether or not to stay here on earth or continue in my galactic challenging. I lay down on the hard concrete roof and closed my eyes. Those wonderful eyes of Rayanna and the red-skirted girl filled my head and for once, I was able to dream.
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It was barely the crack of dawn when I awoke. I jumped down from the skyscraper rooftop I'd slept on and landed on the ground in front of the crater where my ship lay blocked off by caution signs. I raised my hand and aimed for the ship…
*No! what would I do here?/ I'd protect her with my life * I clenched my out stretched hand and stared at the craft. I didn't need to get close to the red-skirted girl, but I couldn't run away and leave this girl with out feeling guilty. She was more than just some girl; she was a woman to me.
"Grrk!" I growled to myself, conflicting thoughts, opinions and emotions confronted each other within my mind, waging war on each other for my best interest.
* My ship was totaled from the inside out. Where would I find the parts? / I didn't train for nothing/ she may need me! / but what could I do? / I have to stay… for her! *
I turned my head away closed my eyes, gritted my teeth, opened my hand and let the energy burst forth. I heard the explosion, and then turned back to watch as my ship was disintegrated in a matter of seconds.
Earth was my new home…
[End of Book one]
AUTHOR's note:
Like it? Don't like it? Hate it? Love it? I want to hear from you! Because believe me, this is not the end of Soldier Z. However whether or not I share my thoughts and ideas over the web via ff.net is up to you. The more people who are interested the more writing I get done.
As you can see, Soldier Z starts out more of a Dragon ball Z fan fiction then a Sailor Moon fic, but it quickly becomes more Sailor Moon than Dragon ball Z as the series continues. Originally, Soldier Z was a planned 17 book series spanning over several volumes, however since this fan fiction is my debut novel on Fanfiction.net I've condensed the series into approximately 4 volumes and 9 books. I took all the major events and strung them together, almost like a tv series converted into a movie.
Let me know if you are interested in the following Chapter;
Soldier Z volume 1 book 2 Miyugen: Kusen Mikata (the hard fighting ally)
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